I’m bug, an interdisciplinary visual artist based on Coast Salish territories, colonially Vancouver BC. My art is influenced by my perspectives and social context as a white, mixed ancestry, disabled, crazy, queer and trans person. I am inspired and influenced by the work of others in disability justice, mad liberation, decolonization and abolitionist movements. While I am the author of my work I am also the fruit of the communities, worlds and people who change and uplift me.

I understand dreaming and inspiration as living components of collective livelihood and see my role as an artist as constructing hope. I aspire to make art that offers reflection and invitation to everyone who feels called to it. Seeing art as a doorway, passage, portal, mirror and witness for everyone it involves.

Drawing is core to my practice, both in my personal work and trades as an illustrator and relational tattooer. Some of my mediums are pen and ink, graphite, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, textiles, sculpture, silkscreening and digital art. I am a painter, printmaker, comic artist, art educator, zine maker, cross-stitcher, poet, author, sketchbook destroyer and artschool dropout.

Looking at self documentation as empowered history and story telling as survival; my own is a rejection of status-quo reality and a navigation of the magic of queerness and interconnection. It is a homage to the concepts of self, reality and time as fluid and non-linear and an envisioning of dreamworld futures made tangible through freak art and magical realism.
Hi! Maybe you remember my website at a different URL (bugcru.com) I recently switched over here. I am in the process of rebuilding my website on a new platform and may change my URL in the process. You can always find my website link in my linktree or just email me if you get lost! :-)